Hi,
I'm a new user to the Flightradar24 Android app, and a couple of times I've noticed that the app displays seemingly very erratic landing behaviour when a selected flight is coming in to land. My mum, who's also a new user to the app says she's noticing this happening on most flights.
Flights coming into land suddenly 'jump' backwards along the route line and the altitude suddenly jumps up. For example a Flybe flight BE2996 from GLA (Glasgow) to MAN (Manchester) that she's been watching this evening was getting down to an altitude of around 800ft and suddenly jumping back along the route line and it's altitude jumping back up to 1400ft or so repeatedly, getting down to under 800ft and then jumping up to sometimes over 1600ft and then suddenly disappearing off the screen. I've just looked at the arrivals for MAN, and the flight's showing as having arrived, but when I tried to use 'Playback' to view the flight, it plays the flight but it stops a fair distance short of the airport.
This seems to be happening with most flights landing at MAN and EMA (East Midlands) at the moment. I found a thread from back in 2012 with a similar thing happening with flights going into LHR (London Heathrow) which said it could be something to do with a lack of radar coverage but didn't seem to have a definite explanation. My mum's driving me mad asking me what's happening and why it's behaving in this way. I'm not sure, and I can't find an explanation on the app's FAQ. Could someone tell me why this might be happening please so that I can stop the constant questions from her! ;) Thanks!
I'm a new user to the Flightradar24 Android app, and a couple of times I've noticed that the app displays seemingly very erratic landing behaviour when a selected flight is coming in to land. My mum, who's also a new user to the app says she's noticing this happening on most flights.
Flights coming into land suddenly 'jump' backwards along the route line and the altitude suddenly jumps up. For example a Flybe flight BE2996 from GLA (Glasgow) to MAN (Manchester) that she's been watching this evening was getting down to an altitude of around 800ft and suddenly jumping back along the route line and it's altitude jumping back up to 1400ft or so repeatedly, getting down to under 800ft and then jumping up to sometimes over 1600ft and then suddenly disappearing off the screen. I've just looked at the arrivals for MAN, and the flight's showing as having arrived, but when I tried to use 'Playback' to view the flight, it plays the flight but it stops a fair distance short of the airport.
This seems to be happening with most flights landing at MAN and EMA (East Midlands) at the moment. I found a thread from back in 2012 with a similar thing happening with flights going into LHR (London Heathrow) which said it could be something to do with a lack of radar coverage but didn't seem to have a definite explanation. My mum's driving me mad asking me what's happening and why it's behaving in this way. I'm not sure, and I can't find an explanation on the app's FAQ. Could someone tell me why this might be happening please so that I can stop the constant questions from her! ;) Thanks!